Obama to Offer Major Blueprint on Climate Change
Source: NYT
WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday morning is expected to unveil President Obamas blueprint for cutting United States greenhouse gas pollution by nearly a third over the next decade.
Mr. Obamas plan, part of a formal submission to the United Nations ahead of efforts to forge a climate change accord in Paris in December, will detail the United States side of an ambitious joint climate change pledge the president made in November in Beijing with the Chinese president Xi Jinping.
In an effort to spur other countries to enact their own domestic climate change plans leading to the Paris accord, the leaders of the worlds two largest greenhouse gas polluters offered the outline of a set of climate actions. Mr. Obama said the United States would cut emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025, while Mr. Xi said that Chinas emissions would drop after 2030.
But the plan will also intensify fierce Republican political opposition to Mr. Obamas effort to build a climate change legacy.
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